Weather-boarding tool



(No Model.)

G. w. PELTON WEATHER BOARDING TOOL.

o. 365,857. Patented July 5, 1887.

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.NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE W. PELTON, OF MUSOATINE, IOWA.

WEATHER-BOARDING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,857, dated July 5,1887.

Application filed March 24, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PELTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Museatine, in the county of Muscatine and State of Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-BoardingTools; and I do declare the following to beafull, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. I

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings,and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective View showing my inventionapplied; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the tool with the stop raised andthe spring compressed.

In the drawings, A represents the supporting-frame, provided with theshoulder a, which abuts against the lower edgeot' a weather-board, 13,under which passes the blade 0. The latter is made fast on the flatbottom of the frame A, which has on its rear end a finger-loop, D;.

On the frame A, and just above the shoulder, is made fast one end of aflat metallic spring, E, whose other end extends up under a lever, F,fulcrumed at f on the front end of the frame A. V

f is a subjacent projection on the lever, the same being provided withtwo or more holes, 5 f, through either of which may pass the fulcrum-pinG, that connects the two frame-ears a. On the upper and inner end of thelever F is made fast the pointed stop H.

The tool thus forms a weather-board self- Serial No.282,fl57. (Nomodel.)

supporting rest and gage adapted to support a weight of aboutthirty-five pounds and to be used as follows: Three fingers of the lefthand are placed in the loop D and the thumb over the free end of thelever F. The spring is then compressed, the stop raised, and the bladepushed under the lower edge of the weatherboard B. The thumb is nowremoved from the lever and the pointed stop allowed to come down uponthe upper part of weather-board B. A tap on the front end of lever willthen make the gage fast in its place,when the lower edge of anotherweather-board may be placed against the stop. a

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding ofmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by LettersPatent, is 1 1. In a weather-boarding tool, the frame A,

having the shoulder a to bear against the buttend of a shingle, a blade,0, to pass under it, a finger-loop, D, on the rear end, and a superposedplate-spring, E, in combination with a lever, F, fulcrumed on the frontend of said frame and carrying under its front end a pointed stop, H,substantially as shown and described.

2. In a weather-boarding tool, the combination, with a lever having apointed stop at its front end and supportedat the rear by a spring, of afinger-loop arranged. under the rear end of the lever, as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. PELTON.

'Witnesses:

WILLIAM FREELAND, FRANK E. KILLMER.

